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Rosalie Maddocks

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Rosalie Maddocks

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Professor of Geology, Paleontology

Ph.D., 1965, University of Kansas
M.A., 1962, Geology, University of Kansas
B.A., 1959, Geology, University of Maine

Office: 227-A SR1
Office Hours: M-F 10:00a - 12:00p
Phone: (713) 743-2772
rmaddocks@uh.edu

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Research Interests

Paleontology General Marine Micropaleontology Taxonomy of Ostracoda.

Biographical Information

Brief Biography: 1965-1967: Postdoctoral research associate with Curator Richard H. Benson, Smithsonian Institution, studying ostracodes of the International Indian Ocean Expedition. 1967-present: Professor of Geosciences, University of Houston. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in paleobiology,micropaleontology, oceanography and historical geology and conduct research on Ostracoda and other microfossils.

Courses Taught

  • GEOL 3377: Introductory Oceanography
  • GEOL 3330: Principles of Paleobiology
  • GEOL 1376: Historical Geology
  • GEOL 1176: Historical Geology Laboratory

Selected Publications

  • 1995. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Bairdiidae (Ostracoda) of Nosy Be, Madagascar. In, Zur Zoogeographie und Systematik insbesondere der Polychaeten und Ostracoden, Dietmar
  • 1995. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Mangrove-mud Ostracoda of Nosy Be, Madagascar. In, Ostracoda and Biostratigraphy, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Ostracoda,
  • 1993. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Thomas M. Iliffe. Thalassocypridine Ostracoda from anchialine habitats of Jamaica. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 13: 142-164.
  • 1993. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Thomas M. Iliffe. Podocopid Ostracoda from freshwater caves of Australia and New Zealand, p. 421-438. In, Ostracoda in the Earth
  • 1993. Maddocks, Rosalie F., Thomas M. Iliffe, and Serban Sarbu. Anchialine podocopid Ostracoda of New Caledonia, p. 439-452. In, Ostracoda in the Earth and Life Sciences

Complete Publications

  • 1964. Benson, Richard H., and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Recent ostracodes of Knysna Estuary, Cape Province, Union of South Africa. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Arthropoda, Article 5, 39 p., 6 pls., 22 figs.
  • 1966. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Distribution patterns of living and subfossil podocopid ostracodes in the Nosy Be area, northern Madagascar. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Paper 12, 72 p., 63 figs.
  • 1968. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Commensal and free-living species of Pontocypria Mller, 1894 (Ostracoda, Pontocyprididae) from the Indian and Southern Oceans. Crustaceana, v. 15, p. 121-136, pls. 1-2, figs. 1-7.
  • 1969. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Recent ostracodes of the Family Pontocyprididae chiefly from the Indian Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 7, 56 p., 35 figs.
  • 1969. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Revision of Recent Bairdiidae (Ostracoda). United States National Museum Bulletin 295, 126 p., 2 pls., 63 figs.
  • 1972. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Two new living species of Saipanetta (Ostracoda, Podocopida). Crustaceana, v. 23, p. 28-42, 3 figs.
  • 1973. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Bythocypris promoza, n. sp., and males of Zabythocypris helicina and Bairdoppilata hirsuta (Podocopida, Ostracoda). Crustaceana, v. 24, p. 33-42, 6 figs.
  • 1973. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Zenker's organ and new species of Saipanetta (Ostracoda). Micropaleontology, v. 19, p. 193-208, pls. 1-6.
  • 1974. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Ostracodes. In, Biota of the West Flower Garden Bank, Thomas J. Bright and Linda H. Pequegnat, eds., Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, p. 199-229, pls. 1-7.
  • 1975. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Recent Bairdiidae (Ostracoda) from Ascension Island. Crustaceana, v. 28, p. 53-65, figs. 1-7, pl. 1.
  • 1976. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Pussellinae are interstitial Bairdiidae (Ostracoda). Micropaleontology, v. 22, p. 194-214, pls. 1-7.
  • 1976. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Quest for the ancestral podocopid: Numerical cladistic analysis of ostracode appendages, a preliminary report. In, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Evolution of Post-Paleozoic Ostracoda, G. Hartmann, ed., Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF), 18/19 (Suppl.), p. 39-53, figs. 1-9.
  • 1977. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Anatomy of Australoecia (Pontocyprididae, Ostracoda). Micropaleontology, v. 23, p. 206-215, pls. 1-4.
  • 1977. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Zoogeography of Macrocyprididae (Ostracoda). In, Aspects of Ecology and Zoogeography of Recent and Fossil Ostracoda, H. Lsffler and D. Danielopol, eds., Proceedings of the VI International Symposium on Ostracoda, Dr. W. Junk, Publishers, The Hague, p. 147-157, figs. 1-11.
  • 1977. Kornicker, Louis, and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Cycloleberis christiei, a new species of marine Ostracoda (Suborder Myodocopina) from Saldanha Bay and Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, v. 90, p. 894-914, text-figs. 1-7.
  • 1979. Garbett, Elizabeth M., and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Zoogeography of Holocene cytheracean ostracodes in the bays of Texas. Journal of Paleontology, v. 53, p. 841-919, pls. 1-15.
  • 1979. Maddocks, Rosalie F. The "dentiform corner" of Macrocypria, and some other peculiar and pathological structures observed in Macrocyprididae. Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on Ostracoda, N. Krstic, ed., Serbian Geological Society, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, p. 247-248, pls. 1-2.
  • 1979. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Two new examples of symbiosis or parasitism in cypridacean Ostracoda. Crustaceana, v. 37, p. 1-12, pl. 1.
  • 1982. Asaro, F., H. V. Michel, W. Alvarez, L. W. Alvarez, R. F. Maddocks, and T. Bunch. Iridium and other geochemical profiles near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in a Brazos River section in Texas. In, Texas Ostracoda, R. F. Maddocks, ed., published by the Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, p. 238-241.
  • 1982. Locklin, Jo Ann, and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Recent Foraminifera around petroleum production platforms on the southwest Louisiana shelf. Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, v. 32, p. 377-397.
  • 1982. Maddocks, Rosalie F. (Editor). Texas Ostracoda, Guidebook of Excursions and Related Papers for the Eighth International Symposium on Ostracoda. Published by the Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, 352 p.
  • 1982. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Bibliography and Index of Texas Ostracoda. In, Texas Ostracoda, R. F. Maddocks, ed., Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, p. 13-102, 2 figs.
  • 1982. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Jo Ann Locklin. Excursion 4: Recent freshwater and marine Ostracoda of the Houston-Galveston area, Texas Gulf Coast. In, Texas Ostracoda, R. F. Maddocks, ed., Department of Geosciences, University of HOuston, p. 307-319.
  • 1982. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and David Melnyk. Excursion 5: Permo-Carboniferous and Cretaceous Ostracoda of North-Central Texas. In, Texas Ostracoda, R. F. Maddocks, ed., Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, p. 320-350.
  • 1982. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and James E. Ross. Excursion 1: Lower Tertiary and Cretaceous Ostracoda of the Austin area, Central Texas. In, Texas Ostracoda, R. F. Maddocks, ed., Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, p. 253-289.
  • 1982. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and James E. Ross. Excursion 3: Lower Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous Ostracoda of the Brazos River Valley. In, Texas Ostracoda, R. F. Maddocks, ed., Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, p. 291-306.
  • 1982. Moysey, David G., and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Ostracoda and associated fauna of the lower Walnut Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Travis and Williamson counties, Texas. In, Texas Ostracoda, R. F. Maddocks, ed., Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, p. 143-165, 3 figs., 6 pls.
  • 1982. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Ostracoda, p. 221-239. In, Evolution Within the Crustacea, by Robert R. Hessler, Brian M. Marcotte, William M. Newman, and Rosalie F. Maddocks, p. 150, 239. In, The Biology of Crustacea, Volume 1, Systematics, The Fossil Record, and Biogeography, Lawrence G. Abele, ed., Academic Press, 319 p.
  • 1983. Ross, James E., and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Recurrent species associations and species diversity of cytheracean ostracodes in the upper Austin and lower Taylor groups (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Travis County, Texas. Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, v. 33, p. 397-406, 11 figs.
  • 1983. Maddocks, Rosalie F. (Editor). Applications of Ostracoda. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Ostracoda, July 26-29, 1982. Published by the Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, 677 p.
  • 1984. Chimene, Julius Baum II, and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Ostracoda biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the upper Taylor Group (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) in Central Texas. Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, v. 34, p. 311-320, 7 figs.
  • 1984. Kaesler, Roger L., and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Preliminary harmonic analysis of the outlines of recent macrocypridid Ostracoda. In, VII International Symposium on Ostracodes, Additional Communications and Discussion, p. 169-174, N. Gagic, ed., Serbian Geological Society, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  • 1985. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Ostracoda of Cretaceous-Tertiary contact sections in Central Texas. Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, v. 35, p. 445-456, 11 figs.
  • 1986. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Louis S. Kornicker. Class Ostracoda (Mussel Shrimps). In, Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda, Wolfgang Sterrer, ed., p. 280-288, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
  • 1986. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Thomas M. Iliffe. Podocopid Ostracoda of Bermuda caves. Stygologia, v. 2, p. 26-76, 18 figs.
  • 1987. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and P. Lewis Steineck. Ostracoda from experimental wood-island habitats in the deep sea. Micropaleontology, v. 33, p. 318-355.
  • 1987. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Repository for Ripley Foraminifera described by Sandidge (1932). Journal of Paleontology, v. 61, p. 1279.
  • 1987. Maddocks, Rosalie F. An ostracode commensal of an ophiuroid and other new species of Pontocypria (Podocopida, Cypridacea). Journal of Crustacean Biology, v. 7, p. 727-737.
  • 1988. Melnyk, David H., and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Ostracode biostratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous of Central and North-Central Texas: Part I: Paleoenvironmental framework. Micropaleontology, v. 34, p. 1-20.
  • 1988. Melnyk, David H., and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Ostracode biostratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous of Central and North-Central Texas: Part II: Ostracode zonation. Micropaleontology, v. 34, p. 21-40.
  • 1988. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Multivariate analysis of leg morphology of Macrocyprididae, p. 219-234. In, Tetsuro Hanai, Noriyuki Ikeya, and Kunihiro Ishizaki, eds., Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, Its Fundamentals and Applications, Elsevier, Amsterdam-New York-Oxford-Tokyo, 1356 p.
  • 1988. Maddocks, Rosalie F. One hundred million years of predation on ostracodes: the fossil record in Texas, p. 637-658. In, Tetsuro Hanai, Noriyuki Ikeya, and Kunihiro Ishizaki, eds., Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, Its Fundamentals and Application, Elsevier, Amsterdam-New York-Oxford-Tokyo, 1356 p.
  • 1988. Maddocks, Rosalie F. New species and review of the genus Paracypris (Ostracoda). Crustaceana, v. 35, p. 53-70.
  • 1989. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Cretaceous and Cenozoic Micropaleontology of Central Texas: Guidebook for NAMS-SEPM Field Excursion, April 22-23, 1989, and Bibliography of Texas Micropaleontology, 170 p. Copies may be purchased from the Treasurer of the Section.
  • 1990. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Living and fossil Macrocyprididae (Ostracoda). University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Monograph 2: 1 - 404 + i - viii pp., 13 text-figures, 80 full-page figures, 114 full-page plates, 76 graphs, 7 tables.
  • 1990. Steineck, P. Lewis, Rosalie F. Maddocks, Ruth D. Turner, Graham P. Coles, and Robin C. Whatley. Xylophile Ostracoda in the deep sea, p. 307-319. In, Ostracoda and Global Events, Robin Whatley and Caroline Maybury, eds., Chapman & Hall, London.
  • 1990. Machain-Castillo, Maria, Ana-Maria Perez-Guzman, and Rosalie F. Maddocks. Ostracoda of the terrigenous continental platform of the southern Gulf of Mexico, p. 341-354. In, Ostracoda and Global Events, Robin Whatley and Caroline Maybury, eds., Chapman & Hall, London.
  • 1990. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Karel A. Wouters. Triebelina ? pustulata KEIJ, 1974 from the Maldive Islands: More homeomorphy in the ornate Bairdiidae (Ostracoda). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 60: 173-180.
  • 1991. Maddocks, Rosalie F. New Bairdiidae (Ostracoda) from Tulear, Madagascar. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 9: 189-204.
  • 1991. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Thomas M. Iliffe. Anchialine podocopid Ostracoda of the Galapagos Islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 103: 75-99.
  • 1991. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Revision of the Family Pontocyprididae (Ostracoda), with new anchialine species and genera from the Galapagos Islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 103: 309-333.
  • 1992. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Anchialine Cyprididae (Ostracoda) from the Galapagos Islands, with a review of the Subfamily Paracypridinae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 104: 1-29.
  • 1992. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Chapter 9, Ostracoda, p. 415-441. In, Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Frederick W. Harrison, ed., volume 9, Crustacea, Frederick W. Harrison and Arthur G. Humes, eds., Wiley-Liss, New York.
  • 1993. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Thomas M. Iliffe. Thalassocypridine Ostracoda from anchialine habitats of Jamaica. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 13: 142-164.
  • 1993. Maddocks, Rosalie F., and Thomas M. Iliffe. Podocopid Ostracoda from freshwater caves of Australia and New Zealand, p. 421-438. In, Ostracoda in the Earth and Life Sciences, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Ostracoda, K. G. McKenzie & P. I. Jones, eds., A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
  • 1993. Maddocks, Rosalie F., Thomas M. Iliffe, and Serban Sarbu. Anchialine podocopid Ostracoda of New Caledonia, p. 439-452. In, Ostracoda in the Earth and Life Sciences, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Ostracoda, K. G. McKenzie & P. I. Jones, eds., A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
  • 1995. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Bairdiidae (Ostracoda) of Nosy Be, Madagascar. In, Zur Zoogeographie und Systematik insbesondere der Polychaeten und Ostracoden, Dietmar Keyser and Robin Whatley, eds. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologisches Museum und Institut, 92: 197-236.
  • 1995. Maddocks, Rosalie F. Mangrove-mud Ostracoda of Nosy Be, Madagascar. In, Ostracoda and Biostratigraphy, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Ostracoda, J. Riha, ed., p. 351-363. A. A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam.
  • 2013. Maddocks, Rosalie F. New and poorly known species of Neonesidea (Bairdiidae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) from French Frigate Shoals, the Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa 3608 (6): 457-510. www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03608p510.pdf Open Access
  • 2013. McGann, Mary, Li Erikson, Elmira Wan, Charles Powell, II, Rosalie F. Maddocks. Distribution of biologic, anthropogenic, and volcanic constituents as a proxy for sediment transport in the San Francisco Bay Coastal System. Marine Geology 345: 113-142.
  • 2015. New and poorly known species of Bairdoppilata and Paranesidea (Bairdiidae, Ostracoda) from French Frigate Shoals and O’ahu, the Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa 4059 (2): 277-317.